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I Posted on YouTube Consistently for 1 Month. This Is What Happened

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Re: I Posted on YouTube Consistently for 1 Month. This Is What Happened

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Post by bartread »

fiat_fandango wrote: post #61
obmelvin wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've watched and judged for myself - I disagree. How is he using "poor people"? Everyday people are "poor people"? I think that says more about you than him. Yes, the views fund what he gives away. But until you or I start dedicating our lives to making money to give away, I don't think either of us has a leg to stand on and criticize him [for this specifically].

https://youtu.be/YhRRny_sHYw?t=45

I think this is meant to be humour. Awkward and not particularly successful humour - distasteful humour - but humour nonetheless.

Re: I Posted on YouTube Consistently for 1 Month. This Is What Happened

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Post by BoppreH »

swighton wrote: post #66

I’ve found that content quality is much more important than posting consistency. This is because there’s a nonlinear relationship between views & quality. For example a video that is twice as good might be capable of getting 10 times as many views. If that’s true it implies that (within reason) spending more time to make a better video is the best strategy. Intuitively this makes sense: would it be better to make 1 m…

Perhaps it varies by category. I think your "mad-science" niche disproportionally rewards quality because (1) there's a high barrier to entry, (2) each project stands up on its own, and (3) your channel already has a positive loop of subscribers.

You have infinitely more Youtube experience than I do (love your videos, by the way!), but maybe those other categories are in your blindspot, just like they are not in my Youtube suggestions.

I'd expect vloggers, celebrities, podcasters, game streamers, political pundits, etc to benefit more from consistent uploads. More videos = more rolls of the viral dice, and furthermore frequency is required for building up fame, parasocial relationships, or just reliably filling the silence during commute.

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Post by luckylion »

PragmaticPulp wrote: post #82
swighton wrote: post #66

I’ve found that content quality is much more important than posting consistency. This is because there’s a nonlinear relationship between views & quality. For example a video that is twice as good might be capable of getting 10 times as many views. If that’s true it implies that (within reason) spending more time to make a better video is the best strategy. Intuitively this makes sense: would it be better to make 1 m…

> I’ve found that content quality is much more important than posting consistency. I know "The Algorithm" gets a lot of hate, but surfacing quality-over-quantity content is one place where recommendation algorithms excel over pure chronological feeds. When I switched Twitter to chronological mode, I had to unfollow several people because they posted all day long. The most valuable Tweets I wanted to see were buried i…

> I know "The Algorithm" gets a lot of hate, but surfacing quality-over-quantity content is one place where recommendation algorithms excel over pure chronological feeds.

Do you find great content on youtube via YT's recommendations? I practically never have, everything I like I've stumbled upon on other sites where something is discussed and a channel is mentioned, or from someone who's work I like mention someone else. YT's recommendations have always been garbage for me, so I eventually just hid them completely because it's mostly noise.

Re: I Posted on YouTube Consistently for 1 Month. This Is What Happened

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Post by oceanplexian »

riskable wrote: post #74

Do you want your life to revolve around whether or not you can keep the lowest common denominator entertained for 10 minutes at a time? Spending (maybe) hours and hours of your life every week doing nothing but video editing? If the answer is, "no" then you're never going to be "a YouTuber" (that makes enough money to live from your channel). I highly recommend doing what I do: Post videos because you want to help pe…

You don't need a lot of editing if you produce useful content that's not filmed with a potato. Any time I post a car repair video, I get 100x the views of anything else I've done. No real editing is needed, other than stitching a few video clips together.

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Post by blondin »

falcolas wrote: post #35
bradlys wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They explained in a video why they do it… Most creators are explicit in why they do it. If they didn’t - their channel wouldn’t reach as far as it did otherwise.

Oh, I completely understand why they did it. And why they have the thumbnails of a person looking shocked at whatever the subject matter is. But I hate it. The change is a tangible downgrade that cheapens the channels who do it. I'm glad for them that they have a larger reach, but I'm no longer a part of that reach because I can't stomach the chintzy thumbnails and titles designed to appeal to first-graders. I voted…

same here. i straight up ignore these videos, no matter who posted it.

if you have to have an arrow pointed to something in your thumbnail. or have to make a shocking face, you do not value me or my time.

there are many other videos to watch. i have ignored many that follow this rather dumb trend. and i still can get to the bottom of my watch later, guys.

Re: I Posted on YouTube Consistently for 1 Month. This Is What Happened

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Post by Quillbert182 »

luckylion wrote: post #93
PragmaticPulp wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I’ve found that content quality is much more important than posting consistency. I know "The Algorithm" gets a lot of hate, but surfacing quality-over-quantity content is one place where recommendation algorithms excel over pure chronological feeds. When I switched Twitter to chronological mode, I had to unfollow several people because they posted all day long. The most valuable Tweets I wanted to see were buried i…

> I know "The Algorithm" gets a lot of hate, but surfacing quality-over-quantity content is one place where recommendation algorithms excel over pure chronological feeds. Do you find great content on youtube via YT's recommendations? I practically never have, everything I like I've stumbled upon on other sites where something is discussed and a channel is mentioned, or from someone who's work I like mention someone e…

I personally have found some excellent content through YT's recommendations. For example, the algorithm introduced me to LockPickingLawyer, Taskmaster, and Jet Lag: The Game.

Re: I Posted on YouTube Consistently for 1 Month. This Is What Happened

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Post by rozap »

swighton wrote: post #66

I’ve found that content quality is much more important than posting consistency. This is because there’s a nonlinear relationship between views & quality. For example a video that is twice as good might be capable of getting 10 times as many views. If that’s true it implies that (within reason) spending more time to make a better video is the best strategy. Intuitively this makes sense: would it be better to make 1 m…

Your videos are on the extreme end of the quality distribution. I wonder if your observation applies as much to the middle part of the bell curve.
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